Medicine is the law : studies in psychiatric anthropology of Australian tribal societies / John Cawte ; foreword by William P. Lebra
- Bib ID:
- 1215991
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cawte, John
- Description:
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- Adelaide : Rigby, 1974
- xxiv, 260 p., 4 p. of plates : maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0851797407
- Summary:
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Transcultural psychiatry, child development among the Walbiri at Yuendumu; Aboriginal doctor, medicine and law among Walbiri, and Kulari, Kuini and Walambi at Kalumburu; concepts of disease; sorcery; malgri among the Lardil and Kaiadilt of Mornington Island; subincision.
- Notes:
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- First published, Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1974.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 239-253.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians. Psychiatry. Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Psychology
- Aboriginal Australians -- Health and hygiene
- Mental illness -- Australia
- Lardil people (G38) (Qld SE54-01)
- Children - Behaviour and development
- Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
- Gunin people (K36) (WA SD52-10)
- Wembria people (K31) (WA SD52-10)
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
- Initiation - Subincision
- Mental health
- Wunambal people (K22) (WA SD51-12)
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever People
- Indigenous knowledge - Psychology and psychiatry
- Andajin people (K23) (WA SE52-05)
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Kayardild / Kaiadilt people (G35) (Qld SE54-06)
- Kalumburu (WA Drysdale East Kimberley SD52-09)
- Yuendumu (South Central NT SF52-12)
- Queensland Gulf country (Qld SE54)
- Mornington Island (Qld Gulf Wellesley Islands SE54-01)
- Northern Territory Top End (NT)
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